Will white Millennials become more Republican when they're middle aged?

[pbrower2a]

Children acting like Baby Boomers when growing up. Millennial adults have little familiarity with Boom behavior in the 1960's and 1970's and will have little idea of what went wrong. Millennial adults are rather bland in their cultural expressions, so we have an oil-and-water non-mix to deal with. 

 

[pbrower2a]

They will become more conservative, as a whole, as time passes. Incividual exceptions will be among those who have stakes in left-trending interests... but

(1) conservatives who have a stake in the economic status quo as property-owners and earners of high incomes are more likely to survive into old age due to better medical care and more will to live

(2) institutional change (mostly a likely breakdown of the economic elitism of the Reagan-to-Trump years) is likely to make life better and give Millennial adults less cause for hostility toward investors and executives

(3) Millennial adults in middle age are likely to find themselves in cultural clashes with young adults as was the case between GI adults and Baby Boomers. Such is grist for reactionary causes that exploit fears and anxieties among middle-aged people who can't understand how their kids could not be chips off the old block.

Note well that the GI Generation often grew up in hardscrabble conditions in contrast to those of younger adults since born... and such caused the GI generation to cleave toward an insipid culture.